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A month, one week and a few days later...

"Angel?" Buffy said quietly. "You awake?"

"Yeah," he said.

"Can't sleep?" she asked.

"Something like that," he answered. "She keeping you up?" he asked her.

"No," she smiled. "Baby girl's been good tonight. I just can't fall asleep."

"What's up?" he asked her.

"She's coming, Angel. This baby is gonna come any day now. I can feel her. She's ready to come out. Shayla said, last month when I talked to her, that little girl here would be making an appearance in a month or two. We've passed the one month mark... I'm scared that she's gonna come before the fighting even starts, and when it finally does, what am I gonna be thinking about the whole time. What are you gonna be thinking about the whole time? Her. We're gonna be worrying about her. And what if we lose because you and me can't fully focus on fighting to saving this screwed up world? Or what if it's the other way around, you know? What if it's all about saving the world, and not her? Either way, there could be so much disaster. I mean, we can fail the world, or we can fail her," Buffy whispered.

Angel sat up and looked straight into Buffy's eyes. "We're not gonna fail anyone," he told her. "It's gonna be okay. We're not going to fail, okay? And we don't know for sure that she's gonna come before the fighting does," Angel said.

"Speak for yourself, buddy," Buffy said, a little snappishly. "Little girl is inside of me. She's coming out in a few days, max, trust me. She wants out into this world."

"I didn't mean it like that. If you say she's coming soon, I believe you. You're the one carrying her. You know what's going on in your own body. I just meant that, the fighting could start right now for all we know. I'm pretty sure the big evils threw out their original date for destruction."

"Oh, well if that's what you meant, then the whole snapping at you thing wasn't so nice," Buffy sighed.

Angel just laughed.

After a few minutes of quiet, Buffy finally asked, "What are we gonna name her?"

"What do you like?" Angel asked.

"I've always thought that maybe you know, give her my mom's name or Willow's as a middle name or something, but then I remember that day we had this conversation. It was so weird and random, but we started talking about naming babies for some reason. And somehow we came to talk about naming babies after people who had died.

"Will and my mom both weren't really for that, and I thought it was a bit weird. But they'd both said that they thought, in the end, that might make the parent sad for some reason. Like they'd look at the child and remember the person who had died and be sad... I don't think I really agree with them, but I guess I get their point. Not wanting to bring back sad memories and stuff... I've also thought of calling her Dawn, but then I get to thinking that, this baby should have a name all her own, you know?" Buffy said.

"I know what you mean," Angel said.

"What about you?" Buffy asked. "Anything you like?"

"Something with a D," he said.

"Something we can work with," Buffy laughed.

And that's when the first big bang was heard and the explosion was seen.

"Here we go," Buffy yelled, hopping out of the bed immediately, and throwing the door open. "Everyone up," she screamed.

"Time to fight," she said as she pulled out her phone, pushed one button that automatically sent one huge message to all her Slayers. It was not a message, just an alarm to let them know it was showtime.

Angel grabbed one bag and threw another to Buffy.

Buffy knew everyone was up, because the Fortress was full of noise. "Everyone knows what you've got to do. If you're getting people to safety, move your asses, if you're fighting, move your asses. Good luck. I wanna see you all again," Buffy yelled loudly.

Buffy quickly ran out of her room and barged into her sister's. Dawn was ready to go. She had a bag of her own with some weapons, she was ready to get people to safety.

Buffy grabbed her sister, hugged her quickly and kissed her forehead. "I'll see you in a bit, okay?" Buffy said worriedly.

Dawn didn't answer, she just hugged her back.

Giles walked into the room and Buffy ran to him, hugging him too.

Angel came in and Dawn went to him, giving him a quick hug. "I've been trying real hard Angel," she told him.

"I told you before not to worry about me. What'll happen will happen... I appreciate what you tried to do," Angel said giving her a smile.

Buffy came over. "We gotta go," she said quickly.

Everyone left the room, and everyone was quickly exiting the Fortress.

Angel pulled Buffy aside, and kissed her hard. He needed at least that if he was gonna be gone. "I love you," he told her as they raced out the door.

"Love you too... Time to kick some ass," she said, with a shaky voice.

It already resembled what L.A. had looked like after the Apocalypse. Many buildings had chunks already ripped out. Things were on fire. And, good God, there were monsters galore.

Everyone had emptied out of the Fortress already, and all of Buffy's Slayers were on the street too. They even had an extra fifty Slayers that had come over from other parts of the world. The Slayers all grabbed their weapons. The witches got the concentrating really hard look in their eyes. Riley and Spike charged, and the werewolves growled and then did the same. The battle was on.

- - - - - I'm not sure if I can get an update up tomorrow, if not I'll have one up on Sunday. Let me know what you think of the chapter.